Machine for making hat-frames.



WILLIAM STOLL, OF 'ASHT-ABULA, OHIO. IMZACHIINVEVFORMAKING HAT-FRAME Specification of Iietters Eatent. Application med Au usua1905. Seria1No.273,866-

Patented. March 13,1906.

- T at); whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SToLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashtai bula, Ashtabula county, State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Machines for Making Hat-Frames, of which I the following is a specification.

This invention'relates to an improved machine for making wire Jhat-frames, the machine being so constructed that hat-frames of all conceivable contours may be made thereon. j

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure l is a plan of my improved machine for making hat-frames; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section, partly in elevation, thereof; Fig. 3, a

"perspective view illustrating one form of a hat-frame made on the machine, and Fig.4

is a detail. v

The letter a indicates an upright spindle adapted to be rotatably secured to a support I) by a clamp c. To spindle a'is secured a'c0l lar or head aZ, having radially projecting arms d, to each of which is fulcrumed at e a two-arm lever e.

able on spindle a, and having pins f that engage oblique slots e of levers e. Thus when the slide is raised the upper ends 7 levers 6 will converge, while when the slide is lowered such upper ends will diverge. The slide f is operated by 'a hand-lever 9, received. wlthin a longitudinal groove a {of spindle a and pivoted to the latter at a Lever .g has a curved finger g engaging an opening f 2 of slide 6, so that by tilting the. vlever the slide may e raised or lowered. I

To the upper end of .each lever e is adjust-. ably secured a radially-extending arm or support h. The adjustment between the parts e and h is such that the arms 72. may be set at different angles to the levers e, to

which efiect the upper end of each lever e is provided with three, more or less, radial slots 6 and with a bolt e back of such slots. The inner end of each arm it has a longitudinal slot h, adapted to engage bolt 6 anda laterally-extendin pin 71, adapted to engage either one of the s ots e Along each arm it extends a spaced parallel, plate '5, connected thereto by a series of bolts Each arm h The levers emay be tilted on their fulcrums by a tubular slide f, .mojvcarries at its inner end a hatframecrown support Zc and alongits body a-series of hatframe-rim supports Z. clamped to arm h by plate '1' and bolts 3', so that the supports may be secured to the arms at various angles and at various elevations.

Each hat-crownsupport 7c consists of a doubled wire, to which is adapted to be clamped at different elevations a slide m, having notch m The slide m serves to receive the top crown-wire 7%.. At its lower end each support is is provided on each shank with a hook k W, adapted to receive the bottom l.

crown-wire 0. By employing either the outer set of hooks k or the inner set of hooks k the slant of the hat-crown maybe changed to conform to the size or fashion desired.

Eachflof the rim-supports Z consists of a doubled wire the shanks of which straddle bolts between parts it and '11. Each support Z has at its upper end a hook receive one of the rim-wires p. The length of each row of supports Z increases preferably a from the center outward.

In use thelevers 6, arms h, and supports 7c Z are so adjusted as to produce a'hat-frame of the desired shape and size. The top crown-wire n is laid around slides m andis connected at'its ends, after which the radial wires 9 are connected thereto. The bottom crown-wire 0 is laid around either set of hooks k k and is connected at its ends,.and

then the radial Wires g'are connected to wire 0. In like manner the rim-wires p are successively laid around supports Z, each wire being connected to the crown by the crosswires g. In this way the frame is built upin a quick and simple manner. After the frame is finished the lever g is manipulated to raisev slide f, and thereby contract the upper ends of levers e, so that the supports k and Z clear The supports 7: Z are 7 Z, adapted to I the frame and permit the latter to beraised ofi the hooks.

If double-rim hat-frames are to be made, a notched slide 1' is mounted upon each of the rim-supports Z, as shown in Fig. 4. The slides r are surrounded by the lower rimwires 8, securedto the frame-crown by the cross-Wires t.

. What I claim is' a In a machine for making hat-frames, the

combination of a rotatable spindle With a Signed by me at New York city, (Manhatslide, a series of levers engaged thereby, a tan), New York, this 11th day of August, 1905. series of arms, means for adjustably securing the arms to the levers, crown-supports and WILLIAM STOLL' 5 rim-supports adjustably secured to the arms, Witnesses:

and slides mounted on the crown-supports WILLIAM SGHULZ,

and rim-supports, substantially as specified. FRANK V. BRIEsEN. 

